Snow-covered roads and a power outage almost derailed two local lovebirds from tying the knot. But the couple took all the challenges Mother Nature threw their way in stride and had a picture-perfect wedding Saturday afternoon.

While Douglas County and surrounding counties have had plenty of storms over the years involving everything from ice and snow to a hurricane and a historic flood, it’s been been more than two decades since a storm wreaked so much havoc on the local power grid.

Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, like the rest of Douglas County, was blanketed in snow last weekend, giving the piedmont forest, creek and historic mill ruins in the park a white coating they rarely see.